Re: Enable ipfw without rebooting

2005-09-28 Thread Oliver Fromme
Achim Patzner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try loading the IPFW KLD (kldload ipfw). And remember - doing a shutdown -r +10 before trying might be a good idea - last time I did this I found out the hard way that the kernel module was built with a default action of deny all from any

Re: Enable ipfw without rebooting

2005-09-28 Thread Achim Patzner
Am 28.09.2005 um 13:04 schrieb Oliver Fromme: Try loading the IPFW KLD (kldload ipfw). And remember - doing a shutdown -r +10 before trying might be a good idea - last time I did this I found out the hard way that the kernel module was built with a default action of deny all from any to any.

Re: Enable ipfw without rebooting

2005-09-28 Thread AT Matik
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 08:35, Achim Patzner wrote: Where's the advantage? A reboot (on a well-maintained) machine should get me back to the state it was before I started tinkering with probably rebooting a server is an unnecessary method at all and something similar to the method you

Re: Enable ipfw without rebooting

2005-09-28 Thread Oliver Fromme
Achim Patzner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: No. Performing a reboot is a rather bad idea. Actually _loading kernel modules you haven't been using before_ Lots of people have been using it before. (Personally I prefer to compile it statically in the kernel, though.)

Re: Enable ipfw without rebooting

2005-09-28 Thread AT Matik
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 09:24, Oliver Fromme wrote: without scheduling a reboot (which can be cancelled just as easily as removing an at job) is (not only in my opinion) a stupid idea. you might consider pasting this into your rc.firewall case ${fw_test_enable} in

Re: Enable ipfw without rebooting

2005-09-28 Thread Ganbold
If you want to restart ipfw you can try: /etc/rc.d/ipfw restart command if you are using FreeBSD 5.x or later. hth, Ganbold At 09:24 PM 9/28/2005, you wrote: Achim Patzner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: No. Performing a reboot is a rather bad idea. Actually _loading

Re: Enable ipfw without rebooting

2005-09-28 Thread Ganbold
Sorry for dup. Probably it is our mail server problem. Ganbold ___ freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ipfw To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]